Ron Cody (center) won a $15,000 sweepstakes to makeover one of the fire stations of Thomson Fire Rescue. Cody, with his firefighter colleagues pose for a congratulatory photo. Photo by Linda Green.

A Thomson firefighter who’d forgotten that he’d entered a national sweepstakes to makeover a fire station was surprised during the City’s Christmas luncheon for employees Friday.
Ron Cody, one of more than 9,000 people to enter the “Fire House Makeover,” won a sweepstakes valued at $15,000 to refurbish one of Thomson Fire Rescue Services station houses.
“I am surprised. It is exciting and we need it,” Cody said. “I’d forgotten that I entered the contest, but I am thankful for it,” he said.
“We have two stations here in the City of Thomson and a concern is Station 2 on the south side of the tracks. We need big help with that one,” he said. “But I don’t know which one will get it.

To read more on this story, see the Wed., Dec. 26, edition of The McDuffie Progress.